Old Masters, New World: America's Raid on Europe's Great Pictures
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ISBN: 0670018317 / Publisher: Viking Adult, August 2008
Recounts the fierce competition to acquire master artworks after the founding of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1870, documenting the contributions of steel tycoon Henry Clay Frick and banker J. Pierpont Morgan.
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Recounts the fierce competition to acquire master artworks after the founding of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1870, documenting the contributions of such figures as steel tycoon Henry Clay Frick, banker J. Pierpont Morgan, and sugar king Harry Havemeyer. 30,000 first printing.
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